Thursday, June 2nd, 16.45 - 18.15, at Società Letteraria
Abstract:
One of the aims of the conference is to think non-violence originally in ontological sense, i.e. not as a negative or privative derivation of violence. As derivated in a privative or a negative way, non-violence seems to have the same ground as violence. The aim to think non-violence originally could be therefore connected with an effort to rethink the metaphysical concept of grounding and founding. In this paper we would like to follow an alternative conception of grounding that has appeared within the phenomenological ontology, namely by Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, who both speak of grounding in terms of the notion of Ab-grund (out-ground or denied ground). While traditional metaphysics explains grounds as causes of singular beings or actions/passions, grounding by out-ground is directed to base rather relational fields or structural spaces than singularities. In this paper, we would like to introduce this idea of out-grounding and to discuss its methodical possibilities for philosophical explanation of non-violence. In the same context we would try to prove explanatory benefits of the concept of vulnerability.
